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The proportion of Australia's population in older age groups continues to increase. To respond to this phenomenon, the Australian Government has reiterated a commitment to a healthy ageing Australia. The National Strategy for an Ageing Australia provides a framework for national response to the challenges and opportunities that an older Australia presents. Healthy ageing is one of the four areas identified in the Strategy that affect population ageing well. Healthy ageing is defined as the development and maintenance of optimal physical, social and mental wellbeing for Australian people throughout their lives. To achieve the goal of healthy ageing, the Australian Aged Care Reform Package 2012 aims at providing $955.4 million over five years in its spent to help older people to stay at home, namely, ageing in place (AiP). AiP as a philosophy of care means older people are supported to remain in the same environment as their care needs increase. Employing a qualitative approach, this research explores the impact of climate change on AiP in northern Queensland. Three senior families from different cultural backgrounds—Anglo Australian, Indigenous Australian and Forced Migrant Australian each—took part in the research. The participants reported that they were vulnerable to heat wave and natural disasters such as cyclones. Compared to older people in general population, Indigenous and forced migrant participants reported higher levels of vulnerability to heat wave and natural disasters due to their lower social economic status and less access to aged care services. This research suggests that it is important to include indigenous and migrant populations and their perspectives in discussion of climate change and its impact on aged care, for reasons of equity and justice and ensuring effectiveness of relevant policies.

[Extract] Over the last twenty years, social scientists have engaged in ongoing debates to extend the understandings of place in ways that move beyond the common-sense level (see for example: Li, Hodgetts & Ho 2010). For instance, place has been explored within physical, socioeconomic, political and cultural contexts within which the individual's bond with place and his/her experiences are embedded (Heidegger 1958). Harvey asserts that "place, in whatever guise, is like space and time, a social construct" (Harvey 1996: 261). Place is indeed socially, politically and culturally constructed because the ways in which people experience place and the meaning people ascribe to it, come out of a socioeconomic, political and cultural milieu, which is in turn dominated by socioeconomic, political and cultural values. Social norms, values and practices give meaning to a place. The individual's feeling about a place which he/she inhabits is moulded by social ideologies as well as the individual's actions and relations to those social norms (Ahrentzen 1992). Important places are those in which events occur and that mark people's particular experiences in new or unique ways (Li & Chong 2012). Those experiences, either the positive or the negative, are considered as growth experiences because they are events that help move people's life journey forward. As Manzo (2005) concludes, places serve as markers in the individual's journey and become significant because of experience. Subjective experiences within particular places shape, and are shaped by, people's relationships to each other, society, and particular settings.

Intro -- AGEING AND MENTAL HEALTH GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES -- AGEING AND MENTAL HEALTH GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: MENTAL HEALTH IN AN AGEING WORLD -- ABSTRACT -- GLOBAL AGEING AS A REALITY -- MENTAL HEALTH IN LATE LIFE -- MENTAL HEALTH POLICIES AND SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE -- THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- REFERENCES -- PART I: VERY HIGH HUMAN DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES/REGIONS -- Chapter 2: AGEING AND MENTAL HEALTH IN AUSTRALIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- AGEING POPULATION AND PUBLIC UNDERSTANDINGS OF AGEING IN AUSTRALIA -- THE PREVALENCE OF MENTAL DISORDERS IN OLDER AUSTRALIANS -- Depression and Anxiety -- Suicide -- Dementia -- Psychosis -- Substance Abuse -- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR OLDER AUSTRALIANS -- INFORMAL CAREGIVING FOR OLDER AUSTRALIANS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS -- MENTAL HEALTH POLICIES RELATED TO OLDER PEOPLE -- POLICY AND SERVICE GAPS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Policy Gaps -- Indigenous Services and Research -- Education -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: SWITZERLAND: TOWARDS AN INCREASING AWARENESS OF OLDER PEOPLE'S MENTAL HEALTH -- ABSTRACT -- CONTEXT -- CULTURAL CONTEXT -- PREVALENCE -- Psychological Distress (PD) -- Depression and Depressive Symptoms (DS) -- Alcohol Abuse -- Cognitive Impairment (CI) -- Dementia -- Suicide -- SERVICES -- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND SUPPORT -- Caregiving -- INFORMAL CAREGIVING -- FORMAL CAREGIVING -- POLICY -- GAPS -- CONCLUSION: A CHANGING APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH IN LATER LIFE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: MENTAL HEALTH AND AGEING: THE UNITED STATES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CULTURE AND CONTEXT OF AGEING IN THE UNITED STATED -- PREVALENCE OF MENTAL DISORDERS AMONG OLDER AMERICANS -- Dementia -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Severe Mental Illness -- CAREGIVING FOR OLDER PEOPLE -- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

AbstractThe term 'regulatory capture' is frequently invoked to describe dysfunctional government institutions. In its casual use, it refers to a phenomenon in which regulations benefit regulated industries, rather than public interests. However, as an analytical concept, social scientists have struggled to empirically identify and define the processes in which capture emerges and sustains. In this article, I outline a cultural framework for regulatory capture by linking cultural sociology and the faces of power to existing capture theory. Through an ethnographic case study of digital trade provisions in international trade agreements, I show how capture occurs through the construction and manipulation of 'public interests'. I trace how capture (a) emerges when industry lobbyists extend existing schemas of a policy network into new frames and (b) is institutionalized into regulatory agencies when policymakers adopt and enact these frames into knowledge production and law. Thus, capture appears through a veneer of consensus, which suppresses alternative interests and policy outcomes.

[Extract] Background: • The term service learning was coined in 1967 by Sigmon and Ramsey (Giles & Eyler, 1994). • There have been many definitions of service learning since then. • Some define service learning as reflective learning combined with service participation (Schwartman, 2001). • On the other hand, some define service learning as a coursed-based, credit-bearing educational experience in which students participate in an organized service activity and then reflect on the activity to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility (Bringle & Hatcher, 1999). • These definitions focus on service learning as a kind of education. • In recent decades, researchers and educators have considered service learning from another angle, that is, service learning as a philosophy (Giles & Eyler, 1994). • Given that service learning has suffered from a lack of a well articulated conceptual framework, the concept of service learning as a philosophy provides a new window into theorising about service learning. • John Dewey's social and political philosophy of experimentalism (which is not to be confused with the more common usage of the term, i.e., a heavy reliance on the experimental method) has been regarded as a theoretical root of service learning (Giles & Eyler, 1994). • For Dewey, experimentalism emphasizes the principles of experience, inquiry and reflection (Dewey, 1938). These principles are core elements of service learning. • From the perspective of service learning as a philosophy, experiential learning, which is distinguished from cognitive learning by Rogers (1969), can be regarded as a broader form of service learning. CAR is a case of experiential learning. • According to Rogers, learning is facilitated greatly when the student participates completely in the learning process and has control over its nature and direction, and when the learning is primarily based upon direct confrontation with practical, social, personal or research problems. • Rogers also emphasizes self-evaluation (or reflection) as the principal method of assessing progress or success. The importance of learning to learn, and openness to change and personal growth is emphasized in Rogers experiential learning. • CAR in my social psychology teaching is a case of experiential learning. • CAR stands for concepts (core knowledge and understanding to engage in action), action (applied active learning of concepts in a community context) and reflection (analytical, evaluative and critical reflective frameworks). • CAR promotes an experiential pedagogy that is discursive, flexible and reflective (Hauser, 2010). • CAR is an Innovative learning experience beyond knowing and doing. • Research questions: 1) How to structure reflection and critical thinking in social psychology; 2) How reflection and critical thinking impact on students' personal and professional development and growth; and 3) How reflection makes a difference in achieving the learning outcomes of Service-Learning.

"Ageing in place" has gained dominance in policy worldwide for more than one and a half decades. This paper explores the significance of place in ageing, in particular within the context of globalisation and immigration. In order to promote the value and participation of older ethnic people in communities, the New Zealand Government has acknowledged cultural diversity in ageing in place policies. However, the concept of ageing in place is based predominantly on middle-class and Euro-centric values. The policies based on such understandings may not be as applicable to the ethnic Chinese. Moreover, ageing in place policies sometimes simply appear to ignore the fact that cultural norms (such as parent-child co-residence in the filial piety practice) may have changed when the migrant is affected by acculturation processes in a Western cultural context. These issues indicate that more culturally attuned research is needed about ageing in place among older Chinese immigrants. Using a Chinese case study conducted in New Zealand, the present research is designed to explore older Chinese migrants' experiences of ageing in place. This paper answers the following research questions: 1) why did the participants immigrate to New Zealand; 2) were they relatively permanently settled; 3) why they moved; and 4) what are their current living arrangements.

In 2007 the Australian federal government enacted a series of emergency measures to deal with the numerous social problems associated with remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. Employing the concept of empowerment, this paper reviews the measures enacted as part of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER), reflecting on their potential psychological impacts and likely effectiveness. It is argued that the lack of community consultation in the design and implementation of the NTER was generally disempowering for the communities involved, as were some of the specific measures enacted, e.g., community wide alcohol bans. Such measures were disempowering because they restricted community autonomy and self-governance. These measurements were also problematic because they reduced the collective self-efficacy of the communities involved. The concept of self-efficacy refers to one's belief in their ability to execute certain tasks and achieve specific goals. Research indicates that self-efficacy level is predictive of positive behaviour adoption and maintenance, especially in terms of health-related behaviours. It is argued that imposing measures upon communities with little community consultation would likely reduce collective self-efficacy by painting the relevant communities as helpless, with little to no ability to reduce their own social problems. Lower levels of self-efficacy would reduce individuals' willingness to engage in behaviour change programmes, like those enacted as part of the NTER. This paper advocates for respectful partnership when working with communities to ensure that communities receive the services that they need and want and that collective self-efficacy levels are not undermined.

The need to make sense of one's mortality is of central concern for death studies. We aimed to explore the meaning of aftermath concerns in the process of preparing for dying. Using a qualitative approach, we explored aftermath concerns among 25 participants with terminal cancer in China. Three aftermath concern themes were developed from the participants' narratives: mental concerns about parents, material concerns about children, and spiritual concerns about the self. Aftermath concerns are relational because they are not about what happens within an individual, but between individuals which are manifested within the broader cultural, social, economic and political contexts.